Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-01-24
LOCAL BREyITIES.

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mark Saturday night, but is now falling.
Large numbers of orange trees are bein
planted this season in the vicinity of Gall
Since the rain of last week the crops lool
very promising throughout Sacrament
county, and ali fears of drought are dis
PEELED.
The mile skating race at the rink Satur
day night between ]. Rogers and J. Pear
son, was won by the former in four and ;
half minutes.
jeff. Davis may be an unreconstructet
rebel, but he now draws a pension of 5,
per month from the United States Govern
ment all the same.
Owing to private enterprise a sidewalk
has been laid in the alley between and L
streets from Third to Fourth, and will
prove great convenience.
The trial of G. J. Kennedy, charged with
tampering with letters in the Sacramento
Postoffice, has been set for Tuesday in the
United States District Court.
The Postal Telegraph Company will to-
day begin the work of distributing its poles
on the route eastward from Sacramento to
Reno, to connect with the wire already ex-
tended
A. J. Senate had on exhibition at the
Mississippi Kitchen Saturday carp, caught
near Fremont. which weighed eleven
pounds, and was the largest that has been
seen in this section.
A business address will be delivered this
evening, in Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation Hall, by Joseph Steffens, who will
have for his subject. Everyday Life. u
VIM. Ingram, Jr., will preside.
Ex-Surveyor-General H. 1. Wiley has
formed a partnership with E. J. Cahill, and
who have opened an office in San Fran
cisco, as civil engineers and surveyors,
under the firm name of Cahill & Wiley.
A correspondent at Latrobe says that
grain prospects in that vicinity never looked
better at this season of the year than at
present. Grain is fully six inches in hight,
thriving unusually well, while the ground
is in prime condition.
The young ladies of Gait have formed a
new society, which is STYLED the "Kata
Dunamin Circle.n The objects of the Cir
Gle are literary and social advancement of
the young people, and public receptions
are to be given from time to time.
The Inaugural Ball Committee has not
yet settled up its accounts, but the business
has been closed up to such an extent to show
that there will be light deficiency in funds,
less than 500. 1t may be, however, that
complete returns of tickets sold will furnish
more coin than is anticipated.
Two landslides between Sims and Duns-
muir, Saturday afternoon. blockaded the
California & Oregon track to such an extent
that trains could not pass, and the passen-
ger train from this city that day only got
as far as Sims. 1t was expected that the
track would be clear again last evening.
The highest and lowest Signal Service
temperature Saturday and yesterday was
$40 and $50, and 500 and 80, with fresh
winds and clear weather on Sat-
urday, and light southerly winds and clear
weather yesterday. There was light frost
OH both mornings, and the barometer was
very high Saturday and yesterday, although
last night it had began falling and was
falling quite rapidly.
Saturday morning horse attached to
buggy in which lady was riding ran
away, in consequence of one of the lines
breaking, and she was in great danger until
Charles King, who was on horseback, saw
the horse running. on II street, between
Fifteenth and Sixteenth, and realized the
lady's peril. He pursued the runaway and
in catching and stopping him
before any injury had been done.
A man named Louis Thoman was ar
rested at San Francisco last Thursday night
while attempting to enter the dwelling of
J. +. Warren, at $40 Valencia street. On
his person was found pair of rubbers and
a bunch of keys. Thoman's room, on
Minna street, near Fourth, was searched
and over twenty valuable watches and sew
eral pieces of jewelry were discovered by
the detectives. 1t is thought that this may
be the burglar who recently operated in
Persons riding and walking in the ex-
IRENE eastern part of the city yesterday
afternoon, were shocked by seeing woman,
bareheaded and poorly clad, sitting on the
bank of a ditch on the north side of n
street, so drunk that she could not rise to
her feet Her hair and clothes were a mass
of cockleburs, showing that she had fire.
quent encounters with the ground before
reaching her resting-place. Whoever would
sell liquor to an unfortunate creature like
her deserves to be rode on a rail out of the
Arrived since last report; Steamer San
Joaquin No. t. from San Francisco, with
and barge load of general
freight; steamer Constance, from San
Francisco, with barge load of lumber for
the Friend & Terry Lumber Co.; steamer
d. f. Knight, from San Francisco. for
with merchandise. Cleared ::
steamers San joaquin, No. 8 and Neponset,
for the upper Sacramento, with merchan-
die; steamer San Joaquin No. 4, for San
Francisco, with grain steamer Constance,
for San Francisco, with barge, light.
Jack Courtney, who was fined S. in the
Police Court Saturday morning for bat
terry upon J. Carley, at Mrs. Hughes, in
the alley between L and NJ, Third and
Fourth streets, got on the warpath again
night at the same place, and was
creating Il full-grown disturbance when
Chief Dillman and officer Mccormack ar
rived and arrested him. He showed fight
on reaching Fourth street, but ran against
the Chiefs fist, which caused his nose to
bleed so freely that people who saw the
blood on the sidewalk yesterday morning
wondered whether some one had not been
assassinated there.
The Chinese quarter was scene of uni
versal festiyity yesterday it being the
commencement of the Chinese New Year
Saturday night some of the Celestials en-
deavored TO do honor to the occasion by
dischareing bombs and fireworks, but
found the police watching them. When
ever an officer turned his back door or
window would be opened, some lighted
explosives thrown out, and then the door
or window would be closed and fastened.
Finally officers Ferral and wager captured
two offenders, one of them being a woman
with her hair done up until it looked
like a flower garden, and after that the
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